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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1917
Page
8
Military officials debate how to promote officers in the expanded national army. Regimental promotion is favored by some for rapid vacancies, while others push lineal or centralized systems to avoid gaps between regiments and Washington.
Navy officials weigh changes to officers dress with debate over dropping the white blouse for a blue coat and open collar. Secretary Daniels favors no major alteration, citing wartime costs and supply limits. Medical measures include ammonium phosphate merged undershirts to reduce flammability and potential life belts for fireproof protection on battle stations.
Misinformation about submarine chasers fades as Navy leaders state chasers remain useful but subordinate to destroyer construction. Navy clothing factories at Charleston and New York increase output, while recruitment centers close for rest and reopen August 22 to admit high-standard applicants. officer and enlisted rosters expand with new volunteers and reserves, and reimbursements for lost or destroyed personal property are capped at set maximums.
Basle reports a failed attempt to blow up the Lonza works in Waldshut Baden. Four bombs with picric acid were found and bomb experts say they could not have been made in Germany. All foreign workers were arrested. several claimed Swiss citizenship, one French man confessed but denied involvement. Another detainee previously worked at an Italian ammo plant.
The Marine Corps reached its authorized enlisted strength of 30,000 on August 10. At the outbreak of war the authorized enlisted strength was 14,981, raised to 17,400 by an executive order, and then to 30,000 by the May 22, 1917 act. This marks the service’s full standard strength during the present war.
Vienna reports committees from Austrian Hungarian and German commercial groups have begun examining conditions in Asia Minor to assess opportunities for industrial development in Armenia and Mesopotamia. The delegation aims to map resources, markets, and investment potential across the region amid postwar economic shifts.
A Berne based correspondent argues that central powers suffer from failed peace aims, submarine campaign setbacks, and Russia pacifist plots. He details German Austrian efforts to influence Russia and stock Stockholm talks, amid Austria-Hungary’s rising debt, civil strain, and political strain as Hindenburg’s Vienna visit signals fragile unity.
The Berliner Tageblatt catalogs war tolls and costs across Europe, noting debt tripling from 25 to 112 billion dollars, tens of millions dead or crippled, and argues vast wealth destruction would have turned Europe into a paradise rather than a wasteland. It highlights Britain’s naval value, German exports, and long recovery horizons.
New York August 11 a brief committee statement explains the gift of an Abraham Lincoln statue to Paris France. The sculpture honors democracy and the allied struggle with France fighting for world democracy and America supporting France in its battle. The committee includes Robert Bacon Norman Hapgood Felix Adler Taft George Putnam Frank Crane Henry Munroe Hughes Myron Herrick Albert Shaw Henry Davison Talcott Williams Frederick Coubert Douglas Johnson Percy MacKays Lyon Abbott Charles Elliott Franklin Giddings Melville Stone.
Dresden reports the Saxon diet voted to acquire several coal mines and operate them by state authority to secure fuel for the next war winter. An initial appropriation of 6.5 million dollars was approved, with total needs near 22 million dollars.
Berlin reports a serious mutiny of Twenty French and English soldiers at Teltow. They refused to work in a potato field under a Third Guben Landsturm battalion picket. The guard was attacked with stones and clubs but cowed the mutineers after two were killed and three wounded. The officer was publicly praised and granted two weeks furlough.
Petrograd August 11 The ministry of justice proposes abolishing administrative tutelage over advocates actions and creating a disciplinary appeal court for suspensions or exclusions. It calls for free legal aid to the poor and forbidding lawyers from commercial undertakings.
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